RSS is a very popular format.…In this movie, I want to show you how to bind your application to an RSS feed.…I'm inside Internet Explorer, and I have my blog opened.…It's blog.wpfwonderland.com.…If I go to the end of my URL, and I type in the word "feed" and press Enter,…I get the RSS feed view of the data,…but it's still not the raw XML data that's coming from my server.…What I should do to get the raw feed is right-click and then choose View Source.…

I've already done that.…I've put the file inside our project, inside Visual Studio.…So let's switch to Visual Studio.…Here is the feed file I'm talking about, BlogExampleFeed.xml.…I'll double-click on it to load it into Visual Studio.…Then I'm going to make my font a little bit smaller by using the mouse wheel and the Ctrl key.…If I would like to bind part of my UI to this data, I need to figure out how to…get down to this XML element.…You can see that the description is a child of channel, and channel is a child of RSS.…

There is a mechanism called XPath built into XML that lets me drill into this…

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11/16/2010

In Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop full-featured applications targeting a variety of platforms. Starting with an overview of the integrated developer environment, the course covers working with code editors, navigating and formatting code, and deploying applications. Also included are tutorials on running performance and load tests, and debugging code. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

Creating a Visual Studio project

Building the user interface

Binding to an RSS feed

Coding with IntelliSense

Creating rich Internet applications with Silverlight

Building Windows applications with Windows Forms

Integrating with SQL Server

Working with Microsoft Office applications

Understanding extensibility in Visual Studio

Working with data, ADO.NET and datasets

Using source control

Skill Level Intermediate

8h 8m

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Q: Which edition of Visual Studio 2010 do I need to follow along in this course?

A: The course is taught with Visual Studio 2010 Professional, but can also be used with the Premium or Ultimate editions. The Express editions of Visual Studio, including Visual Basic 2010 Express, Visual C# 2010 Express, and Visual C++ Express, are not covered in this course.

Q: I'm attempting to download the exercise files for this course, and my virus protection is blocking me from unzipping the downloaded file. Are the files corrupted?

A: The alert is a false-positive message. Your antivirus software is detecting the active code included in the exercise files, which in some ways resembles viral code. There is nothing to be alarmed about and you can ignore the warning. This is common among coding courses and environments.